Groundwater Recharge

Efficient use of water resources is gaining priority in global development policy debates due to the increasing demand for water from agriculture, industry, energy production and ecosystem services.

Publication Date:

22/12/2015

Author(s): Maksud Bekchanov, Aditya Sood, Marc Jeuland

Source: International Water Management Institute

Tags:

River Basin, Water Management, Hydrology, Water Demand, Water Resources, Water Quality, Water Supply, Reservoirs, Ecosystem Services, Groundwater Recharge, India, Global

Forests

Aravali foothills may be opened to realty

Despite repeated tragedies that clearly illustrate the dangers of haphazard urban development at the cost of the environment -the Chennai floods being the most recent example -the authorities never

Publication Date:

14/12/2015

Author(s): Bagish Jha

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Grasslands, Ecology, Haryana, Environmentalists, Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, Forests

Water Resources

Intensive rainfall recharges tropical groundwaters

Dependence upon groundwater to meet rising agricultural and domestic water needs is expected to increase substantially across the tropics where, by 2050, over half of the world’s population is projected to live. Rare, long-term groundwater-level records in the tropics indicate that groundwater recharge occurs disproportionately from heavy rainfalls exceeding a threshold. The ubiquity of this bias in tropical groundwater recharge to intensive precipitation is, however, unknown.

Publication Date:

11/12/2015

Author(s): Scott Jasechko, Richard G Taylor

Source: Environmental Research Letters

Vol:

10

Issue:

12

pp:

1-7

Tags:

Rainfall Pattern, Groundwater Recharge, Asia, Africa, Australia, India, Indo-Gangetic Plains, South America

Water Resources

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Rainwater Harvesting, 03/12/2015

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Rainwater Harvesting, 03/12/2015.

Publication Date:

03/12/2015

Source: Lok Sabha

Tags:

Water Harvesting, Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, India, Parliament, Building Byelaws

Water Resources

Ground water table healthy, can be of non-potable use if tapped well

THANE: The city of lakes has enough alternate sources of water to ackle the non-potable usage till next rains.

Publication Date:

03/12/2015

Author(s): Manoj Badgeri

Source: Times Of India (Thane)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Groundwater, Drinking Water, Thane (D), Monsoons, Groundwater Recharge, Water Resources

Water Resources

Ground Water Year Book of Maharashtra and Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli 2014-15

Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), Central Region has established 1772 ‘Ground Water Monitoring Wells’ (GWMW) in the Maharashtra State and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Out of which, 210 wells are either abandoned or not being monitored due to various unavoidable reasons.

Publication Date:

01/12/2015

Source: Central Ground Water Board

Tags:

Groundwater, Groundwater Quality, Water Resources, Maharashtra, Hydrology, Groundwater Recharge, Dadra & Nagar Haveli

Climate Change

Stubble burning: Hry plans 500 climate smart villages

At a time when Haryana has witnessed major losses to crops due to adverse weather conditions and has been struggling to tackle the prickly issue of paddy stubble burning, the state government has p

Publication Date:

25/11/2015

Author(s): Sukhbir Siwach

Source: Times of India (Chandigarh)

Tags:

Punjab, Climate Change, Rainfall, Droughts, Climate Mitigation, Monsoons, Groundwater Recharge, Climate Impacts

Water Resources